gunbarrel
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 1.27 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
9
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
noun
Alternative form of gun barrel (“barrel of a gun”).
noun
Example Sentences
- "The old complaint against smokeless powders that they caused an excessive strain in the gunbarrel is now very seldom heard."
- "Named becuse the creek is enclosed by vertical cliffs on both sides, so when you look up or down the creek it is straight as a gunbarrel."
- "Scarcely before the gunbarrels had cooled , the inhabitants of the Maghrebi Quarter, founded by Saladin's son Afdal, were evacuated to new homes, their houses demolished to open the space before the Wall for the first time."
- "To examine the alloy of potassium and iron by experiments made upon the alloy itself, a gunbarrel was procured, in which the above chemists had frequently repeated their process for reducing potash, and was still filled on the inside with potashed iron."
- "A four-inch line takes water from bottom of the gunbarrel to the heaters, and then returns the heated fluid to the gunbarrel."
- "Clean oil then discharges from the gunbarrel into the sales tank."